Tlie next morning we offered tlie Committee, a Copy of the Minute ol Council of the S^h Instant, and beged a Copy of the Vote of tlie General Court, under wliicli they now acted, but the Gentlemen declined tlie former, and refused the latter which iievertlieless they permitted us to peruse. -- Tlie purport of it, v/as, as well as \ye can remember, to enable them, to grant Rights tmder the Massachusetts Bay, West of Sheffield & Stockbridge, as far as to the Province of J^Teio York. We observed to the Committee, that they liad a dangerous part to act, their Government Reserving by this Vote, a Right of Judging any of tlie Lands they might grant, to be witliin or without the Province of New York. At Springfield on the 20 Instant, CoU" Partridge also insisted, that the Massachuset's Bay Government, had made that offer last winter of which Coll" Choat had informed us, and assured us, that he had seen a Letter from Your Honour to Governor Shirley, declining an Acceptance of the Proposals -Coib Williams and Collo Worthington, declared that tliey had often heard, and beleiv^ed it to be true, that such offers, had been made by that Government, and refused by this ; & Coll" Dwight of Springfield, afterwards confirmed the same Account. Collo Choat spent the Evening with us, and seemed then to declare with more Certainty, concerning Your Honours Letter to M'^ Shirley, than he had done before at Sheffield.

While we were at Springfield, Abraham Yates Esq*" the Sheriff of Albany, ai-rived with Dispatches from M^ Shirley to Messrs Dwight Williams and Worthington ; and we accordingly waited upon these Gentlemen, to know the Contents of His Excellency's Letters, and were informed that they were desired, to Bail James Elliot and tlie other Prisoners, that were apprehended upon the Death of One Race, if they were not Charged with the Actual Murder.